Videos: Hunter Biden reveals cause of Joe Biden's disastrous debate with Trump
During an interview with Andrew Callaghan on the 'Channel 5' podcast over the weekend, Hunter Biden claimed that his father had been given Ambien, which is a sleep medication, to help the president sleep during his term in the White House.
Asked if he believed his father was going to drop out of the 2024 presidential election, Hunter Biden said, 'No. I thought that we had cleared all the hurdles that they had set up for us.'
Hunter Biden then addressed the highly-anticipated debate between Joe Biden and Trump in June of 2024, which quickly led to Biden dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing former Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
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'It was a horrible debate, and there's no arguing that it was anything but an absolutely horrible debate,' Hunter Biden told Callaghan. 'And I think it scared the sh-t out of a lot of people because they were already concerned about his age.'
In another video from Hunter Biden's interview with Callaghan, the former first son said, 'I know exactly what happened in that debate. He flew around the world basically, the mileage he could have flown around the world three times. He's 81 years old; he's tired as sh-t. They give him Ambien to be able to sleep. He gets up on the stage, and he looks like he's a deer in the headlights. And it feeds into every f-cking story that anybody wants to tell.'
Hunter Biden also pushed back against claims that the Biden administration engaged in a conspiracy to hide the former president's condition from the American people and from Democrat voters.
'If this was a conspiracy… somehow the entirety of a White House in which you're literally living on top of each other has kept their mouth shut about you now, like what? And what's the conspiracy? That Joe Biden got old? Yeah, he got old,' Hunter Biden said. 'He got old before our eyes. The people that came out against him were who — nobody — except Speaker Emeritus Pelosi did not give a full-throated endorsement, which allowed everybody else to kind of go, 'OK.''
'He's 81 years old, he's tired as shit, they give him Ambien to be able to sleep. He gets up on the stage and he looks like he's a deer in the headlights. And it feeds into every fucking story that anybody wants to tell.'
— Hunter tries to explain Joe Biden's debate with Trump pic.twitter.com/HL23f7EVn4 — The Recount (@therecount) July 21, 2025
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